"The documents that we saw gave us reason to believe that the board had the votes to terminate Dr. Shonrock," he says.

However, Dobson says he still has not received a letter from Lindenwood University as to why Shonrock was terminated.

Shonrock was the president of Emporia State University in Kansas before coming to the St. Charles-based Lindenwood in June 2015. He was placed on leave Tuesday in a letter that he said "doesn't describe any rationale at all."